Editing Three-legged crow (section)

===Sun crow in Chinese mythology===
The most popular depiction and myth of a ''sanzuwu'' is of a sun crow called the '''Yangwu''' ({{zhi|c=陽烏}}), more commonly referred to as the '''Jinwu''' ({{zhi|c=金烏|l=golden crow}}) or "golden crow". Even though it is described as a corvid, it is usually coloured red instead of black.<ref name="Animal">{{cite book|title=Animal Motifs in Asian Art: An Illustrated Guide to Their Meanings and Aesthetics |author=Katherine M. Ball  |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |year=2004|isbn= 978-0-486-43338-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LqBHRAoO0qQC&dq=three-legged+bird+sunbird&pg=PA31|page=241}}</ref>  A silk painting from the [[Western Han]] excavated at the [[Mawangdui]] archaeological site also depicts a "golden crow" in the sun.<ref name="hunan museum">{{cite web |url=http://61.187.53.122/Collection.aspx?id=1348&lang=en |title=T-shaped painting on silk from Xin Zhui's tomb |work=Hunan Museum }}</ref>
In ancient Chinese depictions, the Chinese god of creation, [[Fuxi]], is often depicted carrying the sun disk with the {{zhl|c=金烏|p=jīnwū |l=golden crow}} while the Chinese goddess of creation, [[Nüwa]], holds the moon disk which contains a gold-striped toad.<ref>{{Cite book|author=Ma Boying |title=History Of Medicine In Chinese Culture, A (In 2 Volumes)|publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company |year=2020|isbn=9789813238008|pages=108}}</ref>

According to folklore, there were originally ten sun crows which settled in 10 separate suns. They perched on a red [[mulberry tree]] called the [[Fusang]], literally meaning "the leaning mulberry tree", in the East at the foot of the Valley of the Sun. This mulberry tree was said to have many mouths opening from its branches.<ref name="Turtle2">{{harvnb|Allan|1991|p=27}}</ref> Each day one of the sun crows would be rostered to travel around the world on a carriage, driven by [[Xihe (deity)|Xihe]], the 'mother' of the suns. As soon as one sun crow returned, another one would set forth in its journey crossing the sky. According to the ''[[Shanhaijing]]'', the sun crows loved eating two grasses of immortality, one called the Diri ({{zhi|c=地日|p=dìrì|l=ground sun}}), and the other the Chunsheng ({{zhi|c=春生|l=spring grow}}). The sun crows would often descend from heaven on to the earth and feast on these grasses, but Xihe did not like this; thus, she covered their eyes to prevent them from doing so.<ref name="Handbook">{{cite book|title=Handbook of Chinese mythology|author1=Lihui Yang|author2=Deming An|author3=Jessica Anderson Turner|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2005|isbn=978-1-57607-806-8|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofchines0000unse/page/95|pages=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofchines0000unse/page/95 95–96]}}</ref> Folklore also held that, at around 2170 BC, all ten sun crows came out on the same day, causing the world to burn; [[Hou Yi]], the celestial archer, saved the day by shooting down all but one of the sun crows.
[[File:Chengdu_2007_341.jpg|thumb|The [[Queen Mother of the West]] sits upon a throne, flanked by Tiger (west, autumn, yin) and Dragon (east, spring, yang). She is surrounded by a nine-tailed fox, two seated women, a leaping frog, a male attendant, and a three-legged crow, Eastern Han dynasty, 25{{snd}}220 CE.]]
The ''sanzuwu'' is also depicted with the [[Queen Mother of the West]] who are believed to be her messengers.<ref name=":0" />